Workshop of Dynamic Content Filtering (Views)

1. Hong Kong Drupal User Group
(HKDUG)
Workshop of Dynamic Content Filtering (Views)
DrupalCamp Hong Kong
2014 Sep 13th

2. Edison Wong
● CEO, PantaRei Design
– hswong3i@pantarei-design.com
● Drupal developer & contributor
– https://drupal.org/user/33940
● HKDUG Co-founder
– https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk
● Startup founder
– 2009 - PantaRei Design founded
– 2010 - YBHK applicant
– 2011 - ITF SERAP applicant
– 2011 - HKSTP Incu-Tech applicant

3. PantaRei Design
● Hong Kong based Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) service
provider
– Content Management System (CMS) with Drupal
– Cloud hosting with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
● Business Partnership
– 2012 - AWS Consulting Partner
– 2013 - Acquia Partner
– 2013 - Atlassian Experts
– 2014 - Rackspace Hosting Partner
● FOSS Contributor
– 2008 - Hong Kong Drupal User Group Co-founder
– 2012 - Drupal Services Provider

9. Outline
● What is Views?
● How Views Works?
● Example

10. What is Views?
● Dynamic SQL builder
● Fetch content from database, e.g.
– Node: blog, article, basic page
– Comment
– User
– Taxonomy
● Display in different style, e.g.
– List
– Table
– Grid, etc

11. How Views Works?
● 3rd party module present their database schema
as Views friendly style in API, e.g.
– How many tables?
– How the fields being related?
● Views show all such setting in GUI
● You can the setting, Views build the SQL

13. Example
● http://simplytest.me/project/drustack
– Archive
– Front page
– Taxonomy term

14. Q&A

15. References
● https://www.drupal.org/project/views
● https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/
views
● https://www.drupal.org/node/431846

16. I Need More Help!
● Read documents from Drupal Community
– https://drupal.org/documentation
● Join Hong Kong Drupal User Group
– Event organizing: http://www.meetup.com/drupalhk
– Technological discussion: https://groups.drupal.org/drupalhk
– Business connection:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups/?gid=6644792
– General sharing: https://www.facebook.com/groups/drupalhk
● Contact us for one (1) month free-trial support service
– http://pantarei-design.com/services/support/#support-service-plan
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17. Thank You
● Please feel free to contact us:
– Unit 207, 2/F IC Development Centre, No.6 Science
Park West Avenue, Hong Kong Science Park,
Shatin, N.T.
– +852 3576 3812
– http://pantarei-design.com/
– sales@pantarei-design.com